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The definition of an is vague, overlapping with those of an article and a short story. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke's An Concerning Human Understanding and Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population provide counterexamples.